Tak-wai Hung

The dynamics and ambiguities of ‘Chineseness’: Interethnic marriage practices in the Dutch Batavia before 1850

Abstract This article explores how interethnic marriage produces and governs ambiguous identities within legally pluralist port-city settings. Taking the construction of ‘Chineseness’ in the Dutch Batavia before 1850 as a case study, this article analyses how identity was contest...